The last Oracle for a while... I promise...
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Selected-By: Ian Davis <Ian.Davis@ludwig.edu.au>
The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:
Oracle most wise,And in response, thus spake the Oracle:
Why do people ignore the sure warning sign that an Urban Legend is starting, the old "A friend of a friend told me.."?
Word has it that the sole reason is (and I heard this first hand from a friend of mine who knows the hairdresser of the gardener who trims the hedges for the production assistant that gets coffee for the accountant that did the paperwork for the 1996 taxes of the guy who sold a 30' sailboat to the husband of the woman who provided massage therapy for the creator of the telephone answering machine message that told John that Sarah really didn't want to see him any more on account of the genital warts who heard it from the woman that scheduled his doctor's appointment and knows first hand from listening to the subliminal messages one can only hear by playing Kenny G. records backward at 78 r.p.m.) that the faster news travels, the less coherent is becomes.
You owe the Oracle two purebred, AKC-registered choking Doberman puppies.